John the Ripper Alternatives

John the Ripper is described as 'Fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix, Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix systems, supported' and is an app in the security & privacy category. There are more than 10 alternatives to John the Ripper for Windows, Linux, Mac and BSD. The best John the Ripper alternative is hashcat, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like John the Ripper are Kon-Boot, ophcrack, Offline NT Password & Registry Editor and Trinity Rescue Kit.

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    GoCrack

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    GoCrack provides APIs to manage password cracking tasks across supported cracking engines.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    MDCrack

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    MDCrack is a free featureful password cracker designed to bruteforce several commonly used hash algorithms at a very aggressive speed rate.

    11 MDCrack alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Cryptohaze

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    A CUDA & OpenCL accelerated rainbow table implementation from the ground up, and a CUDA hash brute forcing tool with support for many hash types including MD5, SHA1, LM, NTLM, and lots more!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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